Mood Quotes

It was not the purpose of poetry to record anything and everything, to merely describe either the outer world or some subjective mood, but to speak from the imagination of the poet to the imagination of the reader.

Kathleen Raine
Sebald, Naipaul, and Joyce are three of my biggest influences, all of them for their formal freedom and their ability to create mood. So those comparisons are immensely flattering and, of course, unearned.

Teju Cole

The most beautiful novel is the one that starts with a sentence wholly unexpected by the reader who has lived through our storms and norms, and who might once have been the cause of our changing moods.

Ahlam Mosteghanemi
- Mood
- Novel
- Sentence
I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.

Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama
- Song
- Singing
- Holiday
More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their last say with knowledge that the cause is lost. The voice of the majority may be that of force triumphant, content with the plaudits of the hour, and recking little of the morrow. The dissenter speaks to the future, and his voice is pitched to a key that will carry through the years.

Benjamin Cardozo
- May
- Future
- Feeling
Divorced women, compared to married women, are less satisfied with their lives, which is not surprising. But they're actually more cheerful, when you look at the average mood they're in in the course of the day.

Daniel Kahneman
- Women
- Mood
Strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood.

William Cowper
- Strange
- Lines
- Contrast
If someone is in a bad mood, tickling only makes it worse.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal
- Mood
- Worse
- Tickling